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Selected Verse: Psalms 146:7 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 146:7 |
Strong Concordance |
Which executeth [06213] judgment [04941] for the oppressed [06231]: which giveth [05414] food [03899] to the hungry [07457]. The LORD [03068] looseth [05425] the prisoners [0631]: |
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King James |
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners: |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed - This is the third reason why the lot of those is a happy one who trust in God. It is because he has power to pronounce and execute a right judgment or sentence in regard to the oppressed and the wronged, and because it is characteristic of his nature that he does thus execute judgment. See the notes at Psa 103:6 : "The Lord executeth right. eousness and judgment for all that are oppressed."
Which giveth food to the hungry - See the notes at Psa 107:9 : "For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness." This is the fourth reason why they who confide in God are happy. Compare Luk 1:53 : "He hath filled the hungry with good things."
The Lord looseth the prisoners - This is the fifth reason why they who trust in the Lord are "happy." Compare the notes at Psa 68:6 : "He bringeth out those which are bound with chains." See also the notes at Psa 107:10 : "Being bound in affliction and iron." Compare Job 36:8-9. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| The five lines beginning with Jahve belong together. Each consists of three words, which in the main is also the favourite measure of the lines in the Book of Job. The expression is as brief as possible. התּיר is transferred from the yoke and chains to the person himself who is bound, and פּקח is transferred from the eyes of the blind to the person himself. The five lines celebrate the God of the five-divisioned Tra, which furnishes abundant examples for these celebrations, and is directed with most considerate tenderness towards the strangers, orphans, and widows in particular. The orphan and the widow, says the sixth line, doth He recover, strengthen (with reference to עודד see Psa 20:9; Psa 31:12). Valde gratus mihi est hic Psalmus, Bakius observes, ob Trifolium illud Dei: Advenas, Pupillos, et Viduas, versu uno luculentissime depictum, id quod in toto Psalterio nullibi fit. Whilst Jahve, however, makes the manifold sorrows of His saints to have a blessed issue, He bends (יאוּת) the way of the wicked, so that it leads into error and ends in the abyss (Psa 1:6). This judicial manifestation of Jahve has only one line devoted to it. For He rules in love and in wrath, but delights most of all to rule in love. Jahve is, however, the God of Zion. The eternal duration of His kingdom is also the guarantee for its future glorious completion, for the victory of love. Hallelujah! |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Which ewecuteth judgment for the oppressed - For those who suffer by violence or calumny. This may refer to the Israelites, who suffered much by oppression from the Babylonians, and by calumny from the Samaritans, etc., who had prejudiced the king of Persia against them.
Giving food to the hungry - No doubt he fed the poor captives by many displays of his peculiar providence.
The Lord looseth the prisoners - And as he has sustained you so long under your captivity, so will he bring you out of it. |
8 And if they be bound [0631] in fetters [02131], and be holden [03920] in cords [02256] of affliction [06040];
9 Then he sheweth [05046] them their work [06467], and their transgressions [06588] that they have exceeded [01396].
10 Such as sit [03427] in darkness [02822] and in the shadow of death [06757], being bound [0615] in affliction [06040] and iron [01270];
6 God [0430] setteth [03427] the solitary [03173] in families [01004]: he bringeth out [03318] those which are bound [0615] with chains [03574]: but the rebellious [05637] dwell [07931] in a dry [06707] land.
53 He hath filled [1705] the hungry [3983] with good things [18]; and [2532] the rich [4147] he hath sent [1821] empty [2756] away [1821].
9 For he satisfieth [07646] the longing [08264] soul [05315], and filleth [04390] the hungry [07457] soul [05315] with goodness [02896].
6 The LORD [03068] executeth [06213] righteousness [06666] and judgment [04941] for all that are oppressed [06231].
6 For the LORD [03068] knoweth [03045] the way [01870] of the righteous [06662]: but the way [01870] of the ungodly [07563] shall perish [06].
12 I am forgotten [07911] as a dead man [04191] out of mind [03820]: I am like a broken [06] vessel [03627].
9 Save [03467], LORD [03068]: let the king [04428] hear [06030] us when [03117] we call [07121].